I miss Benedict XVI

On 31 December 2022, he died at the age of 95, the pope-senior of the Catholic Church Benedict XVI, born Joseph Ratzinger. He was 1 of the most prominent figures in the Christian planet in the 20th and 21st centuries. He held the post of Pope from 2005 to 2013. He was a symbol of the planet that was just leaving. erstwhile recognized as a organization to the modernization of the Church. Then rather the other – he was clearly associated with the conservatism and fidelity of Tradition.

I valued Benedict XVI as the leader of the Catholic Church. He defended the civilization of life hard and honestly. In matters for the most crucial ethics, he did not yield to those who pushed him into modernity. In matters of morality, household model, sex definition, the function of women and men, tolerance for abnormality did not compromise. He tried to return to where it was possible to tradition. He did not change the Church's attitude towards masonry. He did not yield to influential globalists who reluctantly watched erstwhile he welcomed the presidents of Belarus or Russia.

He hasn't had an easy occupation since the beginning. He became Pope after John Paul II, who was the favourite of many media and most Catholics. He knew it would be compared to his predecessor and yet he did not take a shortcut. He did not court, did not effort to delight the Adversary, did not let himself to be brought into the function of the Dalai Lama. I besides liked him as a man able to endure a dignified old age and illness. He understood his weaknesses and inability. He could truly justice his abilities and strength.

Born in the 1920s, he closely observed the emerging Nazi totalitarianism in Germany. As many young people of their generation were incorporated into the Wehrmacht (like a large part of Poles from Pomerania or Silesia). Fortunately, he avoided front fights. This experience, however, caused his love of peace and opposition to war. He understood perfectly well what she was and what calamities she was associated with. In this respect he continued the message of John Paul II (1920-2005). After Benedict XVI the work is continued by Pope Francis on matters of war.

I am a completely secular man, and I have no intention of speaking about theological or spiritual matters. I will just quote the fact that he was widely regarded as a prominent philosopher, theologian, and author in the Christian world. He was the author of 3 encyclicals: Deus caritas est (2005), Sacramentum caritatis (2007) and Caritas in veritate (2009). I remember a fewer years ago how I listened with large interest to the talks of Canadian left-wing journalists (little favoured by the Church) who expressed their appreciation for the cognition of Benedict XVI of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers.

Undoubtedly Benedict XVI did not deal with all the problems of the modern Church. He failed to get close adequate to the sister churches of the East, failed to break open and secret clicks inside the Church, and lost in a large part the fight against the pedophile lobby in the Church. I think he failed to full implement the plan to return to Tradition in the Church.
Benedict XVI, unlike John Paul II, lived and died, not as a star like his predecessor, but as a “moderate individual of the Lord’s Vineyard”. He was not widely liked by liberal media and was not listened to by most modern Catholics. He was manifestly disregarded by modern hierarchs. He was not understood by the Orthodox of Tradition. I think the work of his life will be like wine. It will gain value in the following years.

Łukasz Jastrzębski